Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.5 on Windows allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in a "system folder."
CVE-2012-5459 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from vmware, from vmware, from microsoft organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2012, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2012-11-14T12:30:59.803
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 7.9 (HIGH)
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
5.5
10.0
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | vmware | player | 4.0 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | player | 4.0.0.18997 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | player | 4.0.1 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | player | 4.0.2 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | player | 4.0.3 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | player | 4.0.4 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0.0.18997 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0.1 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0.1.27038 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0.2 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0.3 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0.4 | Yes |
| Operating System | microsoft | windows | * | No |
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